The three wise men of Gotham were not much worse off when they went to sea in a bowl than was Dick Lee in that rickety little old flat-bottomed punt.

In our flight we had picked up a fishermansnatched him out of his helpless punt as we luffed in a smother of spray, and dragged him aboard, like an enormous frog, at the end of the jib sheetand it was he who now stood at the wheel of our little schooner and took her careening in through the tickle of Harbor Woe.

He accepted her proposal, and we had the satisfaction of seeing the light punt put off from the shore opposite to that from which we were idly and uselessly looking on, and go gallantly over the surging torrent toward the sinking men.

The three wise men of Gotham were not much worse off when they went to sea in a bowl than was Dick Lee in that rickety little old flat-bottomed punt.

It was a somewhat porous old punt, with small fish swimming about in the bottom; but it was well enough for our purpose.

It is afternoon, and I am lying by myself on a cloak at the bottom of the puntthe unupsettable, broad-bottomed punt.

And each time by hook or crook, by a short, weak punt or a clever, dashing run around end, did Hillton win back a portion of her lost territory, only to lose it again at the second or third attempt to advance the ball.